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Discover Bank will refund $200 million to more than 3.5 million cardholders to settle charges that its telemarketers used deceptive tactics to sell credit card "add-on" products, such as credit score tracking and identity theft protection.
Discover also agreed to pay $14 million in civil penalties as part of the settlement, announced Monday by federal regulators.
A joint investigation by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau concluded that Discover had misled customers into buying four add-ons: payment protection, credit score tracking, identity theft protection and wallet protection. The company's telemarketing scripts falsely implied that the add-ons were free "benefits," regulators said. Fast-talking telemarketers skipped over costs and terms and failed to disclose eligibility requirements, they said. Some even charged consumers without their consent, the regulators said.
Under the settlement, Discover must stop using the sales tactics and submit to an independent audit.
Discover is the second major bank to reach such a settlement in recent months. In July, Capital One Bank agreed to refund $140 million to 2 million customers and pay an additional $25 million penalty after an investigation found that the bank's vendors had used deceptive marketing tactics to pressure consumers into paying for add-ons.
"We continue to expect that more such actions will follow," consumer bureau Director Richard Cordray said Monday in remarks to the news media. "In the meantime, we are signaling as clearly as we can that other financial institutions should review their marketing practices to ensure that they are not deceiving or misleading consumers into purchasing financial products or services."
It's the latest sign of stepped-up enforcement action from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a controversial new agency that's considered the signature achievement of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Bureau officials said Monday that they'd pursue violations of the law when they found them but that they couldn't discuss ongoing investigations.
"I do think that the CFPB has obviously made it clear that they want to focus in on this, and I think the institutions understand they have to work with the regulators on this," said Ken Clayton, chief counsel for the American Bankers Association. "My impression is that this is really about clarity and marketing and letting consumers figure out whether the product is good or bad for them."
Discover cardholders who qualify for the refund will receive credits to their accounts. Those who no longer have Discover cards will get checks in the mail. The average refund works out to about $57, although the amount will vary depending on how long a customer has been paying add-on fees.
"We have worked hard to earn the loyalty of our card members, and we are committed to marketing our products responsibly," Discover's chairman and chief executive officer, David Nelms, said in a statement. "As always, we will continue to strive to deliver the highest standards of customer service and satisfaction."
The settlement won't dissuade Discover from offering add-on products, said Jon Drummond, a spokesman for Discover Financial Services. Regulators objected to the way the products were marketed, not to the products themselves, he said.
"Many of our card members continue to get value from these products, and some of them who need it feel that it's a good value, especially those who've cashed in on it," he said.
The consumer bureau is sending a strong message that it won't allow credit card companies to make money by deceiving customers into buying products that don't help them and aren't worth the money, said Ed Mierzwinski, the consumer program director for U.S. PIRG, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
"If they were good products, people would buy them," he said. "Instead, people have to be tricked into buying them."


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It's COLD! Ice rink opens today, at last
The Mammoth Ice Rink is scheduled to open today (Friday) at 11:30 a.m., the town's recreation department announced.
An outdoor facility located at 416 Sierra Park Road adjacent to the Mammoth Lakes Library, the rink once again will offer public skating sessions, hockey clinics, pick-up hockey, Friday night lessons, and is available for rental.
A "Skate with Santa" goes off on Thursday, Dec. 20, between 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Bluebird Imaging will be on hand to capture that special moment or to personalize family Christmas cards for $10. The rink will have fire pits, hot cocoa and snacks available for sale as well.
Adults skate for $10 with skate rentals; youth (5-15) for $8 with skate rentals, and kids 4 and under skate free with a paid adult.
This winter, a sixth skate is free with the Five Skate Pass (5SP).
Seniors and college students skate mid-week for half-price, and local students skate for only $2 per session (including skate rentals).
For beginners, ice skating group lessons are scheduled every Friday evening. Lessons are scheduled for 45 minutes for $10 per student with a maximum of eight students per session.
Friday night lesson times are 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. for elementary age children and from 7 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. for Middle/High School age skaters.
A purchase five lessons in advance gets a skater a sixth lesson at no charge, recreation department director Stuart Brown said.
Ice skates are not included in that fee, but are available for rental.
Private lessons are available for $25 an hour, he said.
As for the pucksters, pick-up ice hockey is programmed at the rink for the entire season (includes holiday periods). Please refer to the schedule for details.
Fees are $10 for adults or $5 for youth per session, or $150/$100 for an Adult or Youth Season Pass.
The Mammoth Ice Rink is owned and operated by the Town of Mammoth Lakes through a partnership with Mammoth Unified School District and Mono County Office of Education.
The facility is drug-free, smoke-free and pet-free. It accepts cash, credit cards, and personal checks with a valid driver's license.
For the complete winter schedule, rates and special promotions, visit www.mammothicerink.com or call the Mammoth Ice Rink at 760-934-2505 during winter operating hours.

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The Party's Secrets
Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu
A Chinese Odyssey: The Life and Times of a Chinese Dissident
Chinese Village, Socialist State
Not long after Mao Zedong died in 1976, one of the editors of the Party's People's Daily said. "Lies in newspapers are like rat droppings in clear soup: disgusting and obvious." That may have been true of the Party's newspapers, which Chinese are skilled at reading, but the history of the Party itself is a rat's nest of often deliberate deception, which the editors of the excellent multivolume Cambridge History of China, or solitary specialists like the late Lazlo Ladany, have tried to unravel. How did the Party, for instance, and Mao in particular, get the support of its own members and the public? How many millions died in the famine of 1959–1961? Who sided with whom during the main Party struggles—during the Long March for example or, more than sixty years later, just before the Tiananmen killings? Why are we only learning now that as many as 20 million Chinese are being held in the Chinese version of the Gulag Archipelago, of whom perhaps eight million have served their sentences and are still condemned to forced labor?1
Against the odds, Chinese are always hoping for the truth. "The man who tells the truth about Tiananmen," I was told in Peking in 1990, by a very senior official, "will rule China." But so dangerous is the truth, he added, that it would have to be told "very subtly." A frank account of who colluded in ordering the killings might result in the lynching of some very famous old men and their supporters.
Recent studies are providing us with new versions of Chinese history—new reports of how the Party took power, and new insights into the nature and extent of its deception. Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out shows that even a philosopher who had a brief, if dramatic, part in the Party's early founding had to be eliminated from its records because he quit the Party a few years after he helped found it. In A Chinese Odyssey we learn how violent was the "liberation" of Shanghai in 1950, and to what lengths the Party went to torment even very young people who objected to it. Chinese Village, Socialist State exposes one of the biggest lies of all: that, at least in the countryside, the Party made life better for the very poor. In many ways, in fact, it made their lives worse.2
"We must talk frankly. Time is running out," the old Chinese radical Zhang Shenfu told Vera Schwarcz in 1979. Schwarcz, a specialist in modern Chinese history at Wesleyan University, met Zhang almost accidentally in 1979, when he was already eighty-six, in the National Beijing Library, where Zhang, a political essayist and mathematical logician who during the 1930s had taught at Peking's Qinghua University, had been more or less exiled for years. Although they were surrounded by officials, it was plain to Schwarcz that the old man "was bent on telling me his own story."
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by Susan Mikula Campbell
The Town of Niagara received a good independent audit report Tuesday, but a bad report from its Belden Center residents impatient with delays in drainage and road repairs.
The Town Board approved a second application to the state Office of Homes and Community Renewal for a Community Development Block Grant to be used in Belden Center.
After the first application failed last year, an exit interview with grant officials provided some tips to have a better chance receiving the very competitive grant with a re-application, explained Nathan Taylor of Rotella Grant Management, the town's grant writer. It was decided to reduce the amount of the grant request to $600,000 and focus on stormwater drainage improvement along Rhode Island Avenue. Pictures were included to show the adverse conditions in the area.
Highway Superintendent Robert Herman said further work in Belden Center will be done in phases as funds become available. Once the drainage work is done, full road repair can begin.
About 10 residents attending the public hearing prior to the board meeting said they were tired of waiting for improvements and that something needs to be done immediately.
"We've always been the stepchild of the Town of Niagara," said Kathy Hall of Pretoria Street.
John Parfinski of Louisiana Avenue accused the town of treating Belden Center as its "shanty town."
"You guys have sucked tax money out of there for years," he said, pointing out that sewers are collapsing, manholes are falling in and the roads are a hazard not only for drivers, but children.
"You can't even drive down St. Paul without hitting potholes," said Jody Parfinski. "It needs attention now."
In the end, Supervisor Steve Richards promised to personally tour Belden Center roads with Herman this week.
Herman said that the town has the loan of the county's "hot box" to keep road repair material hot and he will assign a crew to at least temporarily patch bad areas until the drainage work is done. He noted that the town had sent members of his department to paving school and with trained staff capable of road repair, he now will be able to increase the amount of road work done each year without relying as much on other municipalities for assistance and subcontracting work.
Previously, the town only repaired about two roads per year. This year, he's hoping to have 12 done. He also cautioned that the town cannot focus just on Belden Center, but also must address poor road conditions in other areas.
In his independent audit report, Patrick D. Brown, CPA, of Brown & Company LLP, reported that the Town of Niagara once again received an unqualified audit opinion for the year ending Dec. 31, 2012, the highest opinion form for financial audits. That means the town is in compliance with accounting principles and reporting requirements.
"The town is in stable and good financial condition due to revenues exceeding budget by $408,229 and expenditures under budget by $11,705," he said. "Except for highway, all of the funds are just about where you want to have and maintain them; having adequate surplus fund balances to address unforeseen/emergency situations. The surpluses are reflective of prudent, conservative and realistic budget estimates of revenues and expenses."
However, Brown warned that the town faces ongoing challenges as revenues remain relatively stagnant and expenses rise.
As for debt, the town's philosophy of pay-as-you-go has resulted in a long-term bonded debt of $1.2 million, one of the lowest in the county, Brown said.
The town does not have a general town tax, just taxes for services. The operating budget is primarily covered by sales tax revenues, with additional funds from the New York Power Authority.
"General fund expenses need to be closely monitored and budgeted or they will force a general town tax," Brown said.
Just to replace the $650,000 of NYPA funds for 2012 with a property tax would mean an increase of about $5.07 per $1,000 assessed value in the combined homestead/non-homestead tax rate, he said.
Richards said that the town should look into preempting some of the sales tax revenues like cities do with restaurants, hotels and utilities. The town's businesses generate much of the sales tax and residents have to put up with the traffic, but the county distributes sales tax on a population basis, and the town's population is declining.
With the expansion of Fashion Outlets of Niagara mall already in the works, if the town had a better share of sales tax, similar to the cities' bed tax, "we'd have heated sidewalks," Richards said.


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The Heat have had their fair share of stars come through South Beach over the last 25 years, none of them as bright as LeBron James.
Wade had 32 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds, James shrugged off a sore left knee to score 20 points and grab 10 rebounds, and the Heat earned their franchise-record 15th straight victory with a 97-81 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night.
"Any time you get an opportunity set a record, it's great for the organization and the guys involved," James said. "But we want to keep going. We want to keep winning each game by itself. We don't talk about the streak, we just go to the next game and play it out. We look forward to the next one."
Chris Bosh added 11 points and nine rebounds, and James played 35 minutes despite being listed as a game-time decision with a twisted left knee.
Derrick Williams had 25 points and 10 rebounds and Ricky Rubio had 14 points, eight assists, six steals and five rebounds for the Timberwolves. J.J. Barea had four points on 1-for-11 shooting and was ejected in the fourth quarter after getting a Flagrant-2 foul for a hit on Heat guard Ray Allen.
Minnesota was down six points with eight minutes to play when Barea was ejected. The Heat then went on a 17-5 run to put away the game.
Officials initially ruled it a Flagrant 1, but changed the call upon reviewing it, eliciting strong protests from Barea and Wolves coach Rick Adelman, who also picked up a technical foul. Adelman was furious after the game, alluding to an incident two weeks ago against Golden State in which Wolves centre Greg Stiemsma was hit in the chest by a forearm shiver from Jarrett Jack, but was given a Flagrant-1 and allowed to keep playing.
"I just have one question I want to ask the league," Adelman said. "Why is that a Flagrant-2 foul tonight and the other night Jarrett Jack hit Stiemsma in the stomach with a forearm that that was a Flagrant 1? I would just like to know the difference. That changed the whole game."
Allen immediately got up from the foul and rushed at Barea, but players from both sides stepped in and broke up the confrontation.
"It just came out of nowhere," Allen said. "I was dribbling down the floor, it was a play where he kind of chucked me a little bit and knocked the ball away. I got it back and drove and he just levelled me. I thought it was uncalled for. There's no place for that in this game."
Barea was jawing at Allen as he left the court and said he expected the league to change the call on Tuesday.
"I've been playing in the NBA for seven years," Barea said. "I get hit harder than that every night. I don't get up crying and want to fight."
The Heat outscored Minnesota 58-32 in the paint, amassing 24 dunks or layups out of 38 total field goals.
The Heat had every reason to sit James down in this one, and the runaway favourite for MVP wouldn't have been blamed. The Heat were playing the second game of a road back-to-back, coming off a stirring victory over New York and playing an undermanned opponent that had lost 21 of its last 25 games.
Maybe in the past, James would have. But not this year. He's reached a different level, one that no one has been able to compete with, whether he is completely healthy or not. He knows more is expected of him, and he is delivering every single night.
"His leg would probably have to fall off for him to miss a game," Bosh said.
James tweaked his knee in the third quarter against New York on Sunday when he landed awkwardly while chasing down a lob pass. That didn't stop him from scoring 12 points and swatting Tyson Chandler in the fourth quarter to lead the Heat to their first win of the season over the Knicks, an important victory for the defending champions to assert themselves in the Eastern Conference.
His knee was examined once the team arrived in Minnesota and no serious damage was found. The Timberwolves had a faint glimmer of hope when James was nowhere to be found when the Heat took the floor about 15 minutes before tipoff. But he came jogging out a few minutes later, then continued his recent pregame routine of throwing down monster dunks to get that knee loosened up and ready to roll.
"My knee responded well from that fall yesterday," James said. "I'm blessed. It's nothing really, a little jam when I landed on the floor."
The dunking display kept right on going after the opening tip. Without big Nikola Pekovic (abdominal strain) roaming the paint, the Heat relentlessly attacked the rim. Their first seven field goals came on dunks or layups, as did 15 of their 20 buckets in the first half.
The Wolves made a mini-run, pulling to 76-70 before the Barea-Allen confrontation, and the Heat pulled away after that.
It's not as if the Heat have been feasting on cupcakes during their record streak. They've taken down the Clippers, Lakers, Rockets, Thunder, Bulls, Grizzlies and Knicks, almost all of them in convincing fashion.
The message is being delivered. This is their time. This is LeBron's league.
You want the title? Come and get it.
NOTES: The Timberwolves were also missing F Andrei Kirilenko (calf) for the third straight game. ... The Heat turned the ball over 24 times and were just 5 for 21 from 3-point range. ... Heat C Chris Andersen sparked the team in the second quarter and finished with six points and seven boards. ... Heat F Shane Battier played under Adelman in Houston. "One of my favourite players I've ever had," Adelman said. ... Baltimore Ravens LB Terrell Suggs, who started high school in St. Paul, sat courtside for the game wearing a Heat cap.


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Baylor Announces Record-Shattering Fundraising Success
- McLane Stadium on the banks of the Brazos River
- Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, the new home for Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business
- Baylor President Ken Starr announces the three-year, $100 million President's Scholarship Initiative in September 2010. The initiative successfully raised $101.4 million in less than three years.
McLane family gift for stadium generates unprecedented momentum for gifts to Baylor
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WACO, Texas (March 19, 2014) – Two years ago this month, Baylor University received a visionary gift from distinguished Baylor alumnus and philanthropist Drayton McLane Jr., BBA '58, and his family to initiate fundraising to support an ambitious dream: a $260 million on-campus football stadium alongside the scenic Brazos River. That single transformational gift – at the time the largest capital gift in University history – initiated unprecedented momentum and launched a fundraising effort that has resulted in record-shattering financial support of Baylor benefiting all areas of the University, from academics to athletics.
On the second anniversary of the McLane's historic gift, Baylor University announced the most successful two-year period of fundraising in the University's 169-year history. From Feb. 1, 2012, through Feb. 28, 2014, Baylor's total gifts and pledges of financial support surpassed $345.3 million, provided by more than 40,000 generous alumni, parents, faculty, staff and friends.
During that two-year timeframe, donors provided the University more than $178 million in support for Baylor academic programs, faculty, student scholarships, facilities and other essential areas, while approximately $167 million has been committed in support of Baylor athletics. Over the course of these 24 months, more than 18,000 individuals became first-time donors to the University.
The vision of enhancing campus life through a dynamic on-campus McLane Stadium so stirred Baylor's supporters, that it also lifted fundraising for other important University objectives:
the successful early completion of the $100 million President's Scholarship Initiative
construction of a new $100 million Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation to house the Hankamer School of Business
and additional student scholarships, new faculty chairs and support for specific academic programs across the disciplines
"This momentous outpouring of generosity, that, remarkably, continues unabated, is really a story about Baylor Nation and how thousands of alumni, faculty, staff, parents and friends enthusiastically embraced the bold vision of Baylor alumni like Drayton McLane Jr. and Paul Foster," said Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Starr. "Their historic gifts inspired more than 40,000 members of Baylor Nation – 18,000 of whom were first-time donors to Baylor – to join together, in unity of purpose and with gifts both large and small, to propel the University and to ensure that Baylor remains well positioned to 'meet the needs of all ages to come.'"
In June 2013, Paul Foster, BBA '79, and his wife, Alejandra, of El Paso made the largest gift from a living alumnus in Baylor's history. Their $35 million gift not only supported the construction of McLane Stadium but also inspired an unprecedented number of alumni and friends to step forward in support of the new business school campus that will continue a transformational and innovative education for Baylor business students. The 275,000-square-foot facility will expand the business school's size by more than 40 percent, while providing an outstanding collaborative learning experience for students among a highly corporate and sustainable business environment.
"We are experiencing a very special time in the history of our great University, and it is certainly reflected by the philanthropic spirit of the tens of thousands of Baylor alumni, faculty, staff, retirees, parents and friends who have generously and faithfully supported the University,'" said Richard S Willis, BBA '81, MBA '82, chair of the Baylor Board of Regents.
"Drayton McLane's leadership gift to the stadium initiative catapulted future fundraising to historic levels and ignited the imagination of Baylor Nation. We are abundantly grateful for their enthusiastic response, their support and trust, and their sacrificial giving to all areas of the University. People are excited about Baylor's future and they want to be part of a University that is on the move." Willis said. "By God's grace, and with the support and active partnership of Baylor Nation, we remain steadfast in our commitment to Baylor's distinct and important role in American higher education, and to providing our students with a transformative education that engages every aspect of their experience on our campus."
Baylor soon will launch Phase II of its "From Here We Build" fundraising campaign. The second phase of the campaign includes a five-year, $320 million fundraising goal that focuses on:
$100 million for student scholarships and faculty support
$50 million for student life enhancements, such as global engagement, leadership development and career and professional development
$50 million for academic and program development
$120 million in capital projects, such as a new facility for the Louise Herrington School of Nursing in Dallas and the McLane Alumni Events Center at McLane Stadium
Baylor University is a private Christian University and a nationally ranked research institution, characterized as having "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 15,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating University in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 11 nationally recognized academic divisions. Baylor sponsors 19 varsity athletic teams and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference.
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AMERICUS, Ga. - Balanced offensive production and an athletic defensive attack proved to be too much for Georgia Southwestern as fourth-ranked Clayton State overwhelmed the Lady 'Canes Saturday evening in the Storm Dome, 73-51.
An undefeated Clayton State (6-0) team finished with four players in double figures, led by guard Drameka Griggs' 16 points, as a dominate first half carried them to victory.
The Lakers' led 40-17 at the end of the first half thanks in part to a defense that caused 16 first half Lady 'Cane turnovers.
CLSU used a noticable height advantage to dominate on the boards the entire night, outrebounding GSW 47-31.
Laker forwards Shannon Smith and Kayla Mobley proved to be double-trouble as they led the rebounding attack.Smith finished with a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Mobley finished with 10 rebounds as well for Clayton State.
Jasmine McSwain and Shaniece Sheffield led the Lady Hurricanes with 14 points a piece.
GSW's offense came alive after halftime as the Blue and Gold outscored Clayton State, 34-33, in the second half.
Georgia Southwestern falls to 1-7 (0-2 PBC) on the season.
After a two week Holiday break, the Southwestern will be back in action Monday, Dec. 31, as they take on Point University in the Storm Dome.


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Here is some great news: The Vatican has given formal permission to begin the canonization process for Walter J. Ciszek, S.J. Father Ciszek was an American Jesuit (1904-84), the author of With God in Russia and He Leadeth Me (both originally published by America Press) and, to my mind, one of the great religious figures of the 20th century. If modern-day Catholics know him, it is probably for the harrowing experiences that lie at the heart of his books: the years he spent imprisoned first in Moscow and then in Soviet labor camps in Siberia.
Those two magnificent books (written with the help of Daniel J. Flaherty, S.J.) are perennial favorites among Catholics. The first is a straightforward recounting of what transpired in the Soviet Union. The second, as he said in the book's introduction, represented the answer to the question that many asked after his first book was published: "How did you survive?" He Leadeth Me, then, is his spiritual testament.
How did a Pennsylvania-born Jesuit end up in such perilous circumstances? After volunteering as a young priest in the late 1930s to work in Poland, Ciszek found himself caught up in the turmoil of the Second World War. When the German army took Warsaw and the Soviets overran eastern Poland, Ciszek fled into the Soviet Union along with other Polish refugees.
In 1941 he was captured by the Soviets as a suspected spy. (He was not, of course.) After five years of brutal interrogation in Moscow's notorious Lubyanka prison, he was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor in Soviet camps in Siberia. After that he was released into the general population and found work in small towns in Siberia.
In all these situations he ministered to men and women as a priest—hearing confessions from prisoners in the drafty corners of their barracks or celebrating Masses on tree stumps in the Siberian wilderness—often in danger of being discovered and executed. After decades out of contact with the West, Ciszek was presumed dead by his brother Jesuits until a letter arrived unexpectedly years later announcing his survival. His release from the Soviet Union was negotiated at the behest of President John F. Kennedy.
In October 1963, when Ciszek returned from his arduous sojourn in the U.S.S.R., the first place he came to was the headquarters of America, then located in Upper Manhattan. A photograph that now hangs in our editorial offices shows a smiling Ciszek being welcomed at America House. (A letter from President Kennedy thanking an intermediary for his help arranging the release also hangs on our walls.)
Thurston Davis, S.J., then the magazine's editor in chief, who met Ciszek at New York's Idlewild Airport, wrote in America's issue of Oct. 26, 1963, about his surprise at his friend's appearance: "In his green raincoat, grey suit and big-brimmed Russian hat, he looked like the movie version of a stocky little Soviet member of an agricultural mission." In that same issue, Ciszek wrote a brief but moving statement in which he said, "In spite of seeming failures, I cherish no resentments or regrets for what transpired in the past years."
Father Ciszek is beloved among American Jesuits, and those who knew him never fail to mention his great humility. Among the many tributes to him is the naming of Ciszek Hall, a residence for young Jesuits in "first studies" at Fordham University. The perhaps-future-saint is buried with his Jesuit brothers at the Jesuit Center in Wernersville, Pa., a retreat house today but once the Novitiate of St. Isaac Jogues, where the young Walter Ciszek first heard the stirrings of the mysterious call to go to the East.
There are a number of Saints, Blesseds and Servants of God I daily venerate and among them is Jesuit priest Walter Cizik, whose Beatification Cause has just been approved as noted above. What good news!
I first learned of Father Cizik several decades ago at about thirty, when I read of his prison ordeal in Siberia and the inhuman, quiet martyrdom in pain and deprivation he endured under the Communists, reaching at one point near despair. He was driven in a moment of profound darkness to suicidal thoughts, as was his holy Founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola on his sickbed of great pain and deprivation, due to his seriously injured leg sustained in battle before his conversion. Ignatius regained his composure following some spiritual reading. Fr. Cizik regained his too and chased away the darkness by saying, "No! I am a priest! I cannot do this!" The holy priest contemplating Jesus, in Passion, may have remembered Isaiah's words, "The Lord God is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame."
Ignatius and Walter serve as examples to the rest of us in our moments of darkness caused by our pain and deprivations and in so many other ways, uniting us to the sufferings and deprivations of Jesus. Profound darkness may have led the Lord too, in his humanity as Suffering Servant, to the brink of the despair of abandonment as experienced on the Cross! Forgive me if this is bad theology! Jesus, Fr. Cizik and of course St. Ignatius, offer us deep fonts of reason to hope!
The holy priest Walter Cizik lived on many years after his release, no doubt leading many souls to Christ. Remarkable is his testimony found in a 2001 issue of SOUL Magazine, considering what many see today as threats from radical Islam, that Muslims from various nations especially in the Middle East, make many trips to the Fatima Shrine in Portugal. Our Lady of Fatima may be up to something!
Like Francis of Assisi, I think one day Jesuit priest Walter Cizik will be honored by millions as "everybody's Saint!" Pray for us, Fr. Walter!


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No. 10 Yale Clinches ECAC Title With Win Over No. 11 Cornell
Feb. 28, 2009
Courtesy of Yale
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Things worked out perfectly for the Yale men's hockey team tonight both in New Haven and in Hanover, and the Elis added another trophy to their list of 2008-09 accomplishments. Brian O'Neill had two goals and Mark Arcobello had a goal and three assists as the No. 11 Bulldogs beat No. 10 Cornell 4-2 before a sellout crowd to clinch an outright regular season ECAC Hockey championship.
Yale's win combined with Princeton's 2-0 loss at Dartmouth put the Blue four points up on the second-place Tigers with one game left in the regular season.
The Bulldogs (20-6-2, 15-4-2 ECAC), who earned their first regular season title since 1997-98, got all four goals from the Arcobello, O'Neill, Sean Backman line. They were able to solve Big Red goalie Ben Scrivens (25 saves), who entered the night with the nation's top save percentage.
Alec Richards stopped 29 of 31 shots and kept Cornell off the board for eight of 10 man advantages to earn one of his greatest collegiate victories in net.
Cornell (17-7-4, 12-6-3), which had a 57-25 advantage on faceoffs, had a 31-29 edge in shots and nearly pulled off a big comeback with two late goals.
The Bulldogs (14-11 shots in the first), who were buzzing early in the offensive end, had many grade-A chances and nearly scored on their first man-advantage. Scrivens needed a few impressive stops to keep the game scoreless.
"Our intensity went up even more tonight because we lost last weekend," said Arcobello, who enjoyed his biggest point night of the year.
Ironically, Yale cashed in on Cornell's first power play. Big Red defenseman Mike Devin one-timed a crossing feed at the point that Arcobello got his body on before the Eli forward grabbed the loose puck and saw Backman racing up the middle of the ice. Scrivens perfectly anticipated Arcobello's lead pass and got to the puck before the speedy Bulldog winger, but the Big Red goalie got caught well out of the crease. Scrivens failed to clear the puck. It bounced around for a second before Backman (15th goal) snared it, turned toward the net and slid a wrister through a defender's legs into an empty net at 11:56 for Yale's seventh shorthanded goal of the year.
"He [Scrivens] put it [puck] right into my pants," said Backman, who had a goal (15th) and an assist. "It just put it between the d-man's legs."
The Yale power play, which notched its second to make it 2-0, enjoyed its best night since a four-goal outburst on Feb. 6 at home against Harvard, while the penalty kill knocked off all four Big Red chances in the second and allowed just six shots on goal in the process.
"Our penalty kill was fantastic and probably made the difference tonight," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey. "Cornell has a great team that plays with a lot of poise and patience. But we weathered the storm."
O'Neill found a rebound off an Arcobello shot and smacked it home with 11:59 left in the second.
Arcobello, who got his sixth game-winner of the year, cashed in on a 5-on-3 with 1:13 left in the middle frame to go up three. After a Bulldog timeout, Mike Matczak sent the puck low to Denny Kearney on the right. Kearney quickly rifled it over to Arcobello on the left who one-timed the puck into an empty side. Scrivens never had a chance with the crisp crossing feed.
Yale seemed like it was killing off penalties all night, though the Elis only had to kill two more than the visitors. The Big Red's seventh power-play chance brought them their first goal. Colin Greening one-timed a low shot through traffic in the low slot 3:28 into the third to make it 3-1.
The Bulldogs had to kill off a few more before the Red pulled Scrivens for an extra skater and a 6-on-4 advantage that worked like a charm. Evan Barlow's slap shot from the top of the right circle went stick side on Richards at 17:43 to cut the lead to 3-2.
Scrivens went in and out numerous times over the last few minutes and Cornell tried desperately to put pucks on Richards, who finished the third period with nine saves. However, O'Neill put the finishing touches on the game by putting back a rebound with 45 seconds left that sent the 3,500 at Ingalls into a frenzy.
"It [Ingalls] was cranking pretty good back when I played here. It was good to hear it again," said Allain, a former Bulldog goalie.
The Elis, who complete the regular season Sunday with Colgate, waited patiently to hear the final score from Hanover before the locker room erupted in celebration. ECAC Hockey Commissioner Steve Hagwell was in the locker room to present the Cleary Cup to the Elis, and captain Matt Nelson took the hardware feed.
Sunday's game is crucial for Yale in the Pairwise Rankings as teams jostle for NCAA at large consideration.
Notes: The Bulldogs were wearing black and pink jerseys and socks as part of the Pink at the Rink fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. Those jeresey can be purchased by clicking on Pink at the Rink on ecachockey.com. Cornell wore its home whites... A limited number of tickets are still available for the 4 pm Sunday game with Colgate and will go on sale game day at 2:30 at Ingalls Rink.


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Reviewing Rigid Motions
Lesson 15 of 17
Objective: SWBAT describe a transformation that carries one figure onto another so that specific points, rays, or segments coincide. Students will understand why a transformation may not make all parts of two figures coincide.
Big Idea: Guided notes bring what students learned about using rigid motions and congruence together as they prepare for the unit summative assessment.
Lesson Open
The warm-up prompt for this lesson asks students to describe the rotations that carry a regular pentagon to itself. The warm-up follows our Team Warm-up routine. I choose students at random to write the team's answer on the board.
I ask the class to look at the drawings each team has made on the board. This is an opportunity to check for understanding and help students who need it.
I display the Agenda and Learning Targets for the lesson. Today we are reviewing for the unit quiz, which students will take tomorrow. We will take notes to summarize what we learned about transformations in the last lesson, then review the homework set. I challenge students to ask any questions they still have about the unit before tomorrow's quiz.
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The class completes the Precise Transformations notes to summarize the properties of transformations which students investigated during the last lesson.
These notes provide students with a handy reference on the properties of transformations which can be used to prove congruence. Students must understand that these transformations can be shown to carry figures together so that specific points, segments, or rays coincide--as contrasted with transformations that merely "look like" they will work. Students must understand and be convinced of this distinction to appreciate the conditions required to show triangle congruence (SAS, ASA, SSS) which will be developed in the next unit.
For this reason, the properties are represented in the form of theorems. I do not spend time proving the theorems formally in class, because the practice activities of the last few lessons provide ample opportunity to examine their validity in the context of solving problems. In general, the arguments appeal to the definitions of reflections, rotations, and translations, segments and angles, and linear and angular measure.(MP3)
The notes also introduce notation for representing transformations. Students will need to become familiar with that notation to understand transformation proofs. I have also included a general description of how I use guided notes in my classroom.
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Homework Review
We use the Team Homework Review variation of our homework review procedure to review Rigid Homework Set 2.
As students are checking their homework for accuracy, I circulate to see what questions students still have. If a student needs additional practice on a skill, I can work with them using one of the practice problems left over an earlier lesson. I also check in with students to see how they have done on their portfolio problems and to see if they need any help correcting their pre-tests.
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The lesson close follows our Individual Size-Up Routine. The prompt gives students a chance to see why "looks like" is not good enough to support a claim that a transformation brings two points together--and allows me to check for student understanding.
Recognizing Good Work
While the class is completing the lesson close activity, I invite a student from each team to assign his or her team a score for the lesson. Student scorekeepers write the score in a spot on the front board, and I write the team points scores I assign to each team next to them.
For homework, I tell students to put together their unit learning portfolio checklist, which they will turn in after the unit quiz. For more on how I use learning portfolios in teaching and assessment, see my Learning Portfolios write up.


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Neal Adams' oversized 1978 comic book "Superman vs. Muhammad Ali" pitted the Man of Steel against the world's greatest fighter. To the shock of young DC fans, the brawl left the Last Son of Krypton bruised and bloody.
Adams talks about his knockout comic in the newest episode of "Hero Complex: The Show" in the second segment of a two-part interview conducted on the floor of Comic-Con International in San Diego this summer.
In a nutshell, some nasty aliens called the Scrubb arrive on Earth and threaten to invade unless the planet's greatest champion will fight their massive, snarling gladiator, Hun'Ya. Superman steps forward as the obvious choice, but then Ali cries foul; Superman is an alien himself and if Earth needs a champion, shouldn't it be a human?
Superman and Ali then fight for the right to go, and since the Man of Steel is stripped of his powers during the bout, Ali wins. But the two heroes of Earth have a plan of their own that involves working in the same corner, not just trading blows.
"This is the reintroduction of Superman," Adams said. "I got to reintroduce Superman to anybody who hadn't read the 'Superman' comic books. You read this, and you go, 'Oh, that's Superman. I get it. Battling in space with aliens. Fighting for the earth. Just like Ali is fighting in the ring.'"
Adams said he wants to be remembered as "the father of comic books."
"I truly believe that this is the greatest medium that artists have ever had," he said. "It is going to be, in my opinion, the greatest form of graphic arts and storytelling that has ever existed on Earth. And if I can be considered to be right there at the initiation of it, that's great for me."
Watch the rest of the interview in the video above.
– Noelene Clark and Geoff Boucher
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The 12th-ranked Pittsburgh Panthers will arrive at Hec Ed on Saturday with an unbeaten record. That was assured Wednesday as Pitt survived a scare from city rival Duquesne.
UW's game at Pitt last season was one of the most entertaining of the season, and UW certainly needs a breakthrough win this season.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Coming off a third place finish at last year's national championships, the King University women's wrestling team will open its fifth season of interscholastic competition in a position it is growing accustomed to—as the top ranked team in the Women's Collegiate Wrestling Association (WCWA) preseason poll.
The Tornado began last season as the No. 1 team in the WCWA preseason rankings, the first time in program history that King had attained the top spot. The team ultimately earned a third-place finish and had two individual national champions. With many key wrestlers returning and a year of experience as the preseason favorites, the Tornado are in position to contend for the school's first national championship since winning three consecutive National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) women's basketball titles from 1988-1990.
"I don't think it really adds any pressure, it probably helps that we were preseason #1 last year. We didn't accomplish that, we didn't end with the #1 ranking," head coach Jason Moorman said. "It just shows what kind of talent and expectations we have, but there are a lot of things we haven't done yet. For example, beat Oklahoma City University, we haven't beaten them yet. Even though we are preseason #1, I think we are still kind of an underdog."
In last year's WCWA finals, Alli Ragan swept through all four rounds of the individual bracket without allowing a single point to earn her first title. Ragan, now a senior, will look to lead King to its first team championship by repeating last year's feat in the 136-pound division and has been ranked the No. 1 wrestler in the weight class to open the season. Junior Sarah Hildebrandt finished second in the 123-pound weight class to former teammate Katarina Perez and is the preseason favorite to win the weight class this season.
Joining Hildebrandt as second-place finishers in last year's tournament were junior Julia Salata, the preseason top-ranked wrestler in the 155-pound weight class, and graduate Emily Martin, who also won an individual championship in 2011. Martin's younger sister is current Tornado wrestler Stacy Martin, who is ranked eighth in the 136-pound division to begin the season.
In total, 18 King wrestlers are ranked in the top ten of their respective weight classes. Each of the ten weight classes has at least one Tornado in the rankings, but King is especially deep in the 101- and 116-pound divisions. Lightweight Shannon Constantine, a senior, is ranked No. 3 in the preseason after a fourth place finish at last year's WCWA championships. Last year's sixth place finisher, sophomore Ashley Iliff is seventh in the preseason rankings, and in the ninth position is incoming freshman Alesha Zappitella.
In the 116-pound weight class, juniors Kayla Brendlinger and Samantha Klingel are ranked second and third, respectively. The duo finished fourth and fifth nationally last season, while sophomore Marina Sanchez has earned the No. 7 national ranking. Four other All-Americans return from last year's squad, including Amanda Hendey (fourth place, 143 pounds), Lorrie Ramos (fourth place, 170 pounds), Kerri Bumpers (eighth place, 170 pounds), and Malexis McAdoo (fourth place, 191 pounds).
The Tornado return wrestlers at nine of the 10 weight classes from a season ago. Joining this solid returning core is freshman Haley Augello who is a two-time Junior World team member. During her senior season, the Lockport, Ill., native was named ASICS National High School Wrestler of the year. Augello will compete at the 109-pound weight class for the Tornado.
Women's wrestlers often participate in meaningful international competition outside of the college season, and several Tornado athletes had notable summer campaigns. Klingel took gold at the Junior Pan-American Championships in Santiago, Chile after a second-place finish at the Body Bar Nationals in Lakeland, Fla.
Ragan was the first King women's wrestler to qualify for the US Senior World Team. The Carbondale, Ill., native reached the quarterfinals of the Senior World Championships after earning a silver medal at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia this fall. She also was the U.S. Open champion in her weight class in April.
The Tornado had four representatives on the United States Junior World Team, which was led by head coach Jason Moorman. Salata, Ramos, Hildebrandt, and Augello all were members of the eight-person team.
King opens the season on October 25-26 at the Cliff Keen Duals in Oklahoma City, Okla. The Tornado then host University of the Cumberlands and McKendree University in the Student Center Complex on November 2 for the only home event of the year. The WCWA Nationals will be hosted by Missouri Baptist University on January 24-25 in St. Louis, Mo.


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Jasick, Brennan, Rice & Ross: Four Outstanding O26 Coaching Jobs This SeasonPosted by Tommy Lemoine on February 7th, 2014
As great as the Steve Fishers and Gregg Marshalls and Jim Crews of the world are — and they're pretty darn great — several other O26 coaches have also achieved remarkable success so far in 2013-14, often with less to work with and more to prove. Let's examine a few of those head coaches around the country who have stood out to this point despite leading lesser-known programs.
Tony Jasick – IPFW. At 18-7, Jasick's team has already tied IPFW's highest win total since it joined the Division I ranks 13 years ago, vastly exceeding expectations along the way. The Mastadons were picked to finish sixth out of eight teams in the Summit League preseason poll, making their current 6-2 conference record — enough to be tied for first place — quite a surprise, especially considering that they've already beaten the next three top contenders. In its win against overwhelming league-favorite North Dakota State, IPFW went 20-of-21 from the free throw line and committed just 11 fouls en route to a double-figure victory. It took Dayton some last-second heroics at home to beat Jasick's club, and after falling to Illinois by just two points in late November, Illini head coach John Groce said of the Mastadons: "I thought they were going to be the best execution team that we have played so far. And they were." Only 35 years old and in just his third year, Jasick could very well lead his program to its first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance this season and is sure to become a hot coaching name in the near future.


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CITY ROOM; Sizing Up Two Men of the Sky in a Crisis
By MICHAEL WILSON
Published: August 12, 2010
Consider the two air men.
One of them survived a double bird strike. The other double-fisted beers on his way down an inflatable slide.
One of them basked in the worship of a grateful nation. The other spent a night in jail and seems destined to face many years of fist-pumps and calls of ''Right on, dude!''
One was old school, the other a hothead rebel. Gary Cooper and Carrot Top.
Men these days are judged not by the way they board an airplane, but by the way they get off the darn thing when the going gets tough, and it is with this crude scale we examine the two airline professionals who became household names in our town. And in doing so, we examine ourselves, and we ask a tough question: Am I a Sully? Or am I a Slater?
Neither took much time to answer, when each was asked in different ways. Captain Sullenberger didn't know he was - insert quotation marks in the air - Sully until a load of mixed-up birds departed this life inside a plane's engines, of all places, on a frigid January afternoon. He looked inside himself and found some superhuman reserve of calm, his voice betraying nary a crack as he helpfully told an air-traffic controller, ''We're gonna be in the Hudson.''
Mr. Slater's test came not outside an airborne jet, but from within, taxiing on a blazing hot tarmac, when a surly passenger's piece of luggage bumped his head. His explosive reaction belongs in a Johnny Paycheck song. He cursed over the intercom and bailed with a couple brewskies and ride on a fun-looking slide. In so doing, the authorities said, he broke the law. Putting the two air men in each others' shiny shoes leads to unpleasant scenarios.
The suitcase bops Captain Sullenberger on his head and he frowns and stares down the unruly passenger, calling her ''young lady'' and gravely launching into a lecture about the importance of tarmac safety and how items tend to jostle in the overhead compartments. He eventually bores her into drowsy submission.
And there is poor Mr. Slater in the cockpit when disaster strikes, his tweeting beginning when the tweeting outside ends: ''OMG! :( Double bird strike!!''
Instead of a cool ''We're gonna be in the Hudson,'' air-traffic controllers might hear: ''Don't tell me what to do! All cozy in your cubicle while I'm up here, smelling burned birds! Why am I even in the cockpit? I'm a flight attendant! Who's got a beer?'' (Multiple expletives deleted.)
But in the jobs for which they trained, each man answered his call in his own way. Each looked in the mirror the next day and recognized the man looking back. But what of us? Who do we see in the mirror? Sully or Slater?
The sad truth is that, while many of us want to see Sully, instead, staring back with that goofy grin, we get the other. Because life isn't made up of double-bird strikes. It's an endless stream of annoying little suitcases hitting us on the head. This August heat, the job, the meathead playing the drums on the F train - face it, if you had an inflatable slide to get away from it all from time to time, you'd use it.
This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print.
PHOTOS: Steven Slater, left, the fed-up JetBlue flight attendant who escaped a plane via a slide, and Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III, who safely ditched a disabled US Airways plane in the Hudson River. (PHOTOGRAPHS BY KATIE ORLINSKY FOR THE NEW YORK


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Consumers Energy Helps Northeast Michigan Company Grow Operations, Jobs
Feb 01, 2013, 11:30 EST
JACKSON, Mich., Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers Energy today signed a $19 million contract with Moran Iron Works, a leading manufacturer in Northeast Michigan, for the fabrication of clean-air equipment for the utility's power plants. The agreement is part of Consumers Energy's participation in Pure Michigan Business Connect (PMBC), a public-private initiative developed by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), which connects Michigan companies with opportunities to help them grow and expand.
Consumers Energy's decision to hire a Michigan supplier for this work has allowed Moran Iron Works to expand its metal fabrication operations and create up to 75 new jobs. This work has helped cultivate the only Michigan fabricator capable of supplying components of this magnitude to the energy sector. Moran Iron Works, which currently has 98 employees, previously received contracts from Consumers Energy and its vendors totaling about $43 million for other clean-air equipment projects.
"Moran Iron Works is a Michigan manufacturing success story. Their metal fabrication craftsmanship on clean-air equipment is second-to-none," said Jack Hanson, senior vice president of energy resources for Consumers Energy. "Our Promise to Michigan includes supporting homegrown companies like Moran and working together to bring value to our customers and our state." Hanson noted that Consumers Energy is Michigan's second-largest investor and seventh-largest employer.
"We are very proud of our ongoing relationship with Consumers Energy and this contract demonstrates its commitment to our company and our State. This project provides stability and growth to a region with a workforce that is earnest and able to respond to their needs. Moran Iron Works considers it an honor to be a part of the Consumers Energy team," states Tom Moran, founder and president of Moran Iron Works.
The new contract covers flue gas duct work for Consumers Energy's J.H. Campbell Complex Unit 3, the utility's largest coal-fired generating plant located in West Olive. Moran Iron Works has previously provided clean-air equipment for J.H. Campbell Units 1 and 2, and for D.E. Karn Units 1 and 2, near Essexville. As a result of significant investment, Michigan's air quality is the best it's been in more than 20 years according to a recent public statement by the state Department of Environmental Quality.
"Moran Iron Works is a great story about how MEDC programs can help a Michigan company to grow here," said Michael A. Finney, president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. "Consumers Energy has been a driving force behind our PMBC initiative from the start and we commend the company for its commitment to growing its business with Michigan suppliers."
Consumers Energy has doubled to $500 million its commitment to purchase Michigan-made goods and services over five years, from 2011-2016. The utility's commitment to increase its business contracts with Michigan companies is in addition to the $2 billion annually it now spends in the state. These investments are in customer service, electric and natural gas operations, energy efficiency, renewable energy and environmental stewardship.
Companies interested in learning more about Pure Michigan Business Connect are encouraged to visit the Michigan Economic Development Corporation's website, www.michiganadvantage.org/Business-Connect or Consumers Energy at www.consumersenergy.com/puremichigan
Consumers Energy, the principal subsidiary of CMS Energy (NYSE : CMS ), provides natural gas and electricity to 6.8 million of Michigan's 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties.
For more information regarding Consumers Energy, visit us at: www.consumersenergy.com or join us on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/consumersenergymichigan
SOURCE Consumers Energy


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Local business raising funds for United Way
Happy State Bank is currently raising funds for United Way. Each employee has decorated a pumpkin. Customers coming in the bank can give a donation as a vote for the best pumpkin. Donations will be given to Hutchinson County United Way. Showing off the pumpkins that customers can vote on are Jamie Deaton, Hanna Davis, Jennifer McKinney, and Terri Reneau.


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(Reuters) - At least one person died and more than 30 were injured on Thursday in an explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins chemical plant in Geismar, Louisiana, state police said.
A body was recovered at the explosion scene and a search continued for more possible victims, Louisiana State Police Captain Doug Cain said.
(Reporting by Karen Brooks; Editing by Daniel Trotta and Sandra Maler)


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Litter, debris, and gravel along the edges of roads not only look unsightly, but can cause clogging of storm sewer lines if left uncleaned. The City normally provides one or two rounds of street sweeping on all curbed streets per year to remove this debris. City parking lots are also swept.
Below is a chart showing when the Sweeping took place and approximately how much debris was removed from the roadways.
|June 2004
August 2005
April 2006
July 2006
September 2006
December 2006
March 2007
June 2007
September 2007
December 2007
April 2008
|20 cu. Yds
60 cu. Yds
30 cu. Yds
24 cu. Yds
30 cu. Yds
24 cu. Yds
60 cu. Yds
36 cu. Yds.
23 cu. Yds
60 cu. Yds
67 cu. Yds
Spills of materials in the roadway or material such as screws or bolts that are a hazard to traffic are swept up by City personnel immediately when reported. If you wish to report debris in the road that is a hazard, call the Service Department at (330) 468-8324. You can also call the Police Department non-emergency line at (330) 468-1234.
How we do it!
The City does not own a street sweeper, so a contractor is brought in to perform the work. It usually takes several days for the contractor to complete the entire City. All debris that is swept up is disposed of in an approved landfill.


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